Carolyn Hougan Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

There's nothing in a glorious summer's day to suggest anything even remotely sinister. In fact, Alex Callahan, a news correspondent, surprises himself by enjoying the Renaissance Faire that his six-year-old twins, Kevin and Sean, have forced him to visit. The boys are delighted by the jugglers and magicians, jesters and foodmongers dressed in full Elizabethan costume. But it's the joust that the boys have really been waiting to see. Alex takes a break to watch, while keeping half an eye on the twins, but when he turns to see how they are enjoying themselves, they're nowhere to be seen. The perfect day has turned into every parent's nightmare. His sons have disappeared, and Alex is an immediate suspect. But no one can explain the bizarre origami figure he finds after he returns to his empty house. Or the bowl of water that has been left on the top shelf of the wardrobe. Or, the T-shirt soaked in blood... As police attention to the case wanes, Alex's own investigations uncover a sinister, underground world that he never dreamed existed. A world where reality is portrayed as illusion, and where the reason behind the twins' disappearance is more terrifying than anything Alex can imagine...

In the Book of Revelations, the Four Horsemen herald the arrival of the Apocalypse. Now, with history threatening to repeat itself, a scientific expedition speeds toward a remote island in the Arctic Sea to recover strains of the lethal virus preserved under layers of ice. For Washington Post reporter Frank Daly, it is the story of a lifetime.

Joe Lassiter is an ex-FBI investigator bent on revenge . The confession belongs to the late Dr Franco Baresi, and concerns the work at his fertility clinic - a fertility clinic that Lassiter's sister attended and, as he horrifyingly discovers, all the other victims in a recent series of murders that have swept the world.

When Nicola Ward inherits a trunk filled with family photographs, jewelry and papers that appear to be written in Chinese and Russian, she dispatches them to an auction house to be appraised. But her family memorabilia may contain startling information about a Soviet spy ring, and together with Neil Walker, the ex-CIA agent hired to research the documents, Nicola plunges into a dizzying game of international espionage and politics that will have her questioning her own identity—and fighting for her very life.... In a sophisticated thriller that hurtles from the last days of the royal Romanovs to WWII Shanghai to present day San Francisco and Maine, Carolyn Hougan delivers all the adventure, romance and history that has the San Diego Union proclaiming that her fiction “ranks right up there with the works of such authors as Ken Follett and Helen MacInnes.”